Split a big folder (and its contents) into several small new folders?

Question

By luck do you know a software on Windows (XP/Win7) which can easily split a big folder (and its contents) into several small new folders ?

notes:

• the new small folders should be independent

• the "file splitter" that I have already tested don't do alas the "folder splitter" job ! ;(

Example :

I have a main big folder C:\big\ (size: about 3Go)

The result I need :

C:\big01\ (size: about 200MB)

C:\big02\ (size: about 200MB)

etc...

Update:06/03/2011 : Something important to me is that I have saved [CTRL+S] many htm pages (from firefox) in my big folder.

So I have for instance such files for one html page saved :

C:\big\trial001.htm

and

C:\big\trial001_files\1105.gif

and

C:\big\trial001_files\1esss5.gif

....

Please notice the htm name and its dependent (related) folder name (see the added "_files") containing various files - This make splitting the big folder more difficult as I have never found a splitter to keep grouped a htm file and its related folder. ;(

Thanks in advance ;)

Answer 1

If you don't really need to access files in those split folders (e.g. you need smaller folders for distribution on e.g. business-CDs), then I would suggest using an archiver with volumes support (e.g. WinRAR). Then you could specify maximal size for each volume, and get as many small volumes as you want.

Answer 2

Here's a solution http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00Etbl. It was developed to split folders for DVD but the process is the same. Apparently this process is called spanning. Here is another option DVD Span - http://helpspa.com/other/how-to-split-folders-into-dvd-sized-chunks-or-how-to-split-directories-to-span-dvds/ Hope it helps. Btw: the first one is for xp but should work on any ntfs. Always back up. before hand.